Lead Software Engineer - Java

J.P. MORGAN; Scotland; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Scotland is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to enhance and deliver top-tier technology products. The role involves executing creative software solutions, leading a team of developers, and ensuring robust production support. Candidates should have proficiency in Java and Agile methodologies. A competitive salary and diverse work environment are offered.

Qualifications

• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle and tools.
• Advanced understanding of CI/CD and Application Resiliency.
• Hands-on experience in Java with core concepts.

Responsibilities

• Execute creative software solutions and technical troubleshooting.
• Lead a team of developers and conduct code reviews.
• Own the end-to-end process of feature deliveries.

Skills

Java

Agile methodologies

Microservices architecture

Unix/Linux proficiency

Database expertise

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

Git/Bitbucket

Jira

Jenkins

Gradle

Maven

Job description

Overview

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products. As a Lead Software Engineer within JPMorgan Chase's Commercial and Investment Bank organization, you will contribute to enabling trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a core technical contributor, you will be responsible for implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains to support various business functions and achieve the firm’s objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Works at code level with Java while leading a team of developers and provides regular coaching, conducts code and design reviews.
• Collaborates with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas/solutions, and provides mentoring and technical expertise to the team.
• Develops specific enhancements and builds new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements.
• Owns the end-to-end process of feature deliveries through the full SDLC, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Documents release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by production management groups.
• Provides third-level production support on a rotation basis—analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience.
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle and tools including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, Security, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and using tools such as JUnit and mocking frameworks.
• Hands-on coding experience in Java, and understanding of Java Core concepts including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java 17 while leading a team of Software Engineers.
• Expertise in Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, and REST-based services.
• Expertise in designing and implementing scalable microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities.
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments, ability to navigate the system, investigate processes and logs.
• Expertise in databases, relational and No-SQL, and JVM performance analysis including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning.
• Demonstrated ability in supporting production environments, responding to user concerns, and taking ownership of production issues while working in a third-level advanced support capacity.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Exposure to cloud technologies, Splunk, Apache Kafka, Grafana.

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About The Team

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.